So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,

So if you have the ordinary cases of life for settlement, do you set up as judges the very men in the church who have no standing?

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

I prize and praise you for always remembering me and for firmly standing by the teachings as I passed them on to you.

Now let me remind you, brothers, of the essence of the good news which I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you now are standing,